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Date: Mon, 10 Dec 2012 14:02:37 +0200
From: lucio@proxima.alt.za
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Subject: Re: [9fans] Canonical way to configure permanent remote cpu access
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>> My immediate concern with the PI is that it's going to get into
>> trouble, eventually, with CF memory.
>
> The pi has no built-in flash at all; its normal non-volatile storage
> is a plug-in SD card.  I think the wear-levelling on these is sufficient
> that you can run a normal fossil file system for quite a while before
> it wears out.  And if it does wear out, you just plug in a new one.

That's good to know.  Back here in the sticks such information arrives
slowly in horse-drawn carriages like 9fans :-)

I don't remember how I managed to keep up to date, or when the
slipping back started.  Probably when my friends started leaving South
Africa back in the 1990s.

++L